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VectorLinux Review

Posted May 21, 2007 22:31 UTC (Mon) by zlynx (subscriber, #2285)
In reply to: VectorLinux Review by pr1268
Parent article: VectorLinux SOHO: A better Slackware than Slackware (Linux.com)

The bcm43xx kernel driver does not work on my laptop, no matter which firmware I try.

I get the situation where it tries to authenticate and associate over and over and over again, but never actually succeeds.

NDISwrapper works quite well for me.

So, its entirely possible there are other people out there who can't use the bcm43xx driver.


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Posted May 24, 2007 2:42 UTC (Thu) by lysse (subscriber, #3190) [Link]

Are you using wpa_supplicant? I found myself hitting a brick wall with the bcm43xx drivers until I tried that, and was amazed to find it Just Worked. YMMV.

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